An inmate who escaped from York Correctional Facility in Niantic Sunday morning was recaptured in East Lyme at about 12 hours later, the state Department of Correction said in a release.

The prison was put under lockdown and a full-scale search was initiated for Lori Beyus at 6:30 a.m. Sunday after corrections officers reported her missing from breakfast in the prison dining hall.State police, corrections personnel and East Lyme police set up a perimeter around the prison and initiated a full-scale search.

At 5:40 p.m., police received a tip that Beyus had been spotted on Interstate 95. State police and correctional officers were deployed to the reported location, and Beyus was taken into custody and returned to the prison.

Beyus, 49, is originally from Torrington, police said. According to the state Department of Correction's database, she was convicted of second-degree robbery in January and sentenced to 51 months. She had been in prison since November and was not eligible for release until January 2017.

The part of the prison where Beyus was being housed is on the minimum-security side of the facility, which is not entirely fenced in. For that reason, her escape is being considered a "walk-away," police said. Still, when Beyus is found, police said, they expect to charge her with first-degree ecape.